1970 Plymouth Barracuda

Posted on by Maike Deckers

1970 Plymouth Barracuda with a rollercam 360 crate engine and a 727 automatic transmission, this cool mopar has power steering and power disc brakes in front and is a original European delivered car. Currently 24 years from the same owner in the Netherlands and is “restored” in the Netherlands.

Car has NL registration documents / plates

It has power windows, reclining seats (EU option), rallye dash, rimblow stearing wheel.

The car did not had a total restoration, but restored everything that needed attention over the years.

Things that have been done are: Roof/vinyl, engine bay, interior, new engine, wiring harness (last year), body had small rust resto, and a total repaint (quarters, small hole floor, firewall to floor connection had a little spot). The floors and trunk are still original and in very nice condition. It also wears its original chassis coating.

There’s a little history (service receipts) with the car, also the original owners manual is still there, all Swiss.

Sadly the original engine is not with the car, now it got a 2013 magnum rollercam 360 crate engine. But it still has the original 727 auto, and 8 ¾ rear

Things that are not original:

-shaker hood (reproduction) but the Original hood is with the car and is in restored condition.

-340 hockeystick stripes

-blacked out rear panel

-15″ rallye wheels (I think it came with 14″ magnums)

European Barracuda.

This car is quite unique, it’s a export model that came as an KDU (knocked down unit) from Hamtramck, and were assembled at the Nekaf (Simca) plant in Rotterdam (NL) My car was new sold in Switserland. There were 192 (Ola Nilsson database) produced for the European market, unfortunately these cars had no fendertags or buildsheets the only tag it has is the Amag Schinznach tag, and the dash tag with the 08 export code and the production nrs without the BH23H. The choices were 2 slant 6s, 318 or 383. The 340 was a special order and had all the ‘Cuda options. That makes it an BH23 H 08 car (08= export code) they never existed in the US. The database tells 39 340 cars, this car is #13.